Employers expect to step up their health care cost management strategies over the next three years, as their expenses are expected to rise by 5.5 percent in 2018, up from a 4.6 percent increase in 2017, according to the Willis Towers Watson 2017 Health Care Employer Survey.
“While employers made significant progress over the last few years refining their subsidy and vendor/carrier strategies, many are now looking to other aspects of their health benefit programs in order to improve health and dampen future cost increases,” says Julie Stone, a national health care practice leader at Willis Towers Watson.
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
